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Kim, Yang and Hwang (2006) distinguish 10 characteristics of indigenous psychology. [6] It emphasizes examining psychological phenomena in ecological, historical and cultural context. Indigenous psychology needs to be developed for all cultural, native and ethnic groups. It advocates use of multiple methods.
Two definitions of the field include: "the scientific study of human behavior and its transmission, taking into account the ways in which behaviors are shaped and influenced by social and cultural forces" [8] and "the empirical study of members of various cultural groups who have had different experiences that lead to predictable and significant differences in behavior". [9]
Virgilio Enriquez was a prominent advocate of indigenous psychology in Asia. This academic movement arose from Western psychology's lack of applicability to non-Western societies and thereby promoted cultural sensitivity and appropriateness within psychology by enabling each culture to develop their own frameworks and methodologies. [4]
Jeffrey Ansloos is a mixed Cree/Canadian English scholar known for his expertise in Indigenous suicide research. [1] He is an associate professor of Indigenous Health and Social Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, as well as a Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Indigenous Health and Social Action on Suicide.
Indian psychology refers to an emerging scholarly and scientific subfield of psychology.Psychologists working in this field are retrieving the psychological ideas embedded in indigenous Indian religious and spiritual traditions and philosophies, and expressing these ideas in psychological terms that permit further psychological research and application.
Chinese: The most significant ethnic minority of foreign origin in Indonesia, officially amounting to around 2.8 million, with other sources estimating them at anywhere between 2 and 4 million. Chinese people began migrating to Indonesia in the 16th century, with significant waves in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The term putra daerah ("son of the region") refers to a person who is indigenous to a specific locality or region. In 1998, the Indonesian government of President B. J. Habibie instructed that neither pribumi nor non-pribumi should be used within the government because they promoted ethnic discrimination.
The benefits of a global psychology would include the merging of Western and Eastern psychologies and the inclusion of indigenous psychologies to form a meta-psychology. Naturally, this would improve the field of psychology, globalize its theories, and form a more comprehensive psychology with a universal application if necessary or a more ...